Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14765, Aaron Furbush, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Furbush, Aaron Katherine
W 14765
CONTENTS

Massachusetts - 2678
Katharine Furbush
widow of Aaron Furbush
Mass who died on the 24 th February 1838 of Franklin in the State of Mass - who was a Pensioner in the Army commended by Captain Knowlton of the Regt commended by Q.M. - in the Mass - line for 1st Inf -
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 50 Dollars - Conti per annum to commence on the 1st day of March 1838 25 th Feby 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Jan '39, and sent to and Elizal Stone Greenfield Mass -
Arrears to the 4th of March - $ 48 67 Semi-annual allowance ending 25 - $ 73 67
{ Revolutionary War, } { Act July 5, 1836. } { Pension Act }
Recorded by R. Cushing Clerk. Book A Vol. 2 Page 53

Aaron
Aaron Furbush
22,328
Pmt 15 M rs
Adm.
$50-
E. Alvord Gunsfield Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Aaron Furbush  of  Wadsworth  in the State of  Massachusetts  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 80 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     April In 1776 " 8 " Private Gen. Knowlton Col. Dyer   June 1st 77 " 5 10 " " Hovey, Gen. Marm   " 2 " " not recollected  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Warwick Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness and one traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct in every respect 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. D. Atkinson Examining Clerk.

Katharine Furbush - 4203 Dec 13
Map.
14 July 1836
adm 15 mo/pri 50 $
did 21 Feb 38 pen. com. 25 Feb 38
Elyah Alvord Greenfield Mass. Agent

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin County ss. On this eighteenth day of September A. D. 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Richard E. Newcomb Esquire, Judge of the court of Probate in and for said county of Franklin; Katherine Turlough, aged eighty four years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836; That she is the widow of Aaron Turlough, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States, under the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June 1832, that her name was placed on the roll of the Massachusetts agency the 20 th day of March 1833, as appears by certificate number - 10,714; and for proof of his services she refers to the testimony now on file in the Department of War, on which her said pension was granted.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Aaron Turlough on the twenty seventh day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy four; and that her husband the said Aaron Turlough died on the twenty fourth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty eight; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by the proof herewith exhibited.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before R. E. Newcomb
Katherine Turlough Mark
And the said Judge of Probate doth declare his opinion, after an investigation of the matter, that the above named Aaron Turlough was a soldier in the army of the revolution, and that he was placed upon the roll of pensioners of the United States as set forth in the above declaration - that the above named Katherine Turlough, the said applicant was married to the said Aaron as above declared - that the said Aaron died on the twenty fourth day of February last - and that the said Applicant has ever since remained a widow.
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss I Elijah Alvord, Register of Probate in and for the county of Franklin do hereby certify, that Richard E. Newcombe is the Judge of Probate in and for said county, and that the several within signatures, purporting to be his, were made in my presence, and are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Probate Court for said county this third day of October A.D. 1838.
E. Alvord Reg. Prob.

Aaron Turbush New Salem
22328

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss. County of Franklin
September
On this eighteenth day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before Richard C. Newcomb Esquire, Judge of the court of Common Pleas  Probate now sitting, Aaron Hurbush a resident of New Salem in said county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, aged nearly eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, in the militia of Massachusetts, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In the month of April  March 1776 he enlisted for the term of nine months, and served in the Company commanded by Capt. Ezekiel Knowlton, of which John Benister was first, & William Duff, second Lieutenants, & John Wheeler Ensign, in Col. Dykes Regiment; that he was stationed in Dorchester, assisted to build two forts on Dorchester heights, was there immediately after when the British troops evacuated Boston, and continued there in the said service eight months, or to about the first of December  January following, when he procured a substitute & returned home.
That he again enlisted about the first of June 1777 for a period of five months, in the Company commanded by Capt. Nathan Lamson  Ebenezer Hodge , Solomon Hixon Lieut. the name of the Col. commanding the Regiment he does not now recollect, in Gen. Jonathan Barnet's Brigade; that he marched from Stillwater the day preceding the battle of Bennington, and arrived at Bennington soon after the battle was over; that during almost the whole of this period of service, he was employed with small parties as Rangers or scouts , and therefore had less opportunities of becoming acquainted with the field & General Officers, than he otherwise might have had; that he saw General Gates & Lincoln, during this service. That being unwell, he obtained leave, and returned home, two or three weeks prior to the expiration of said term of enlistment, and was not again required to return to camp. Afterwards, but the particular time he cannot now state, he, on account of the sickness of his brother Moses, who had been stationed as a guard over the British prisoners, then confined at the barracks, in Rutland, Worcester County, Mass. became the substitute of his said brother, and served two months in guarding the prisoners at Rutland, and in accompanying a division of said prisoners to Suffield in the state of Connecticut, from whence he returned home; making in the three several periods of service, the aggregate of fifteen  fifteen months.
May
That he was born the 28 th day of May A.D. 1753, at Hardwick, County of Worcester, Mass.; that he has a record of his age, and that it is in his bible; that when he enlisted the several times he lived in said Hardwick; that he has lived since the revolution, in Greenwich, County of Hampshire, Wendell, Orange, &

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the presents, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
R. E. Peckham
Judge of Probate
Dear Mr. Purvis,
We Alpheus Harding, a Clergyman, and William Whitaker residing in New Salem in the county of Franklin, hereby certify that we are acquainted with Aaron Furbush, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be nearly eighty years of age; that he is respected and beloved, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Alpheus Harding
William Whitaker
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Dr. S. Newcomb
Image of Probate
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Alphaeus Harding who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said town of New Salem and that William Whitaker who has also signed the same is a Justice of the Peace resident in said town, and he is a credible person and that their certificate is entitled to credit.
Re E. Newton. b—
Judge of Probate.
I Elijah Moore Register of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Aaron Furbush for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said court this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1832
E. Alvord Reg. Prob.

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14765- Katherine Furbush Widow of Aaron Furbush Priv. Recv. War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. a , Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Worcester ss.
On this twenty ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the said county of Worcester, personally appeared George Haskell of said Hardwick in said county, aged seventy one years, who on his oath declares, that in the year 1847 he was in the militia service of the United States, for the term of about six weeks, at or near the time of the battle of Binnington, and that Aaron Farbush, then of said Hardwick, was in said service during said term, and how much longer either before or after, he does not know, but said Farbush was in said service before he enlisted , at that time, and continued in it when he left it. And the said Haskell further declares, that afterward, he was again in the said service at Rutland in the county of Worcester, for a short period, how long he does not now recollect, and that said Farbush was there at said Rutland, when he was in said service.
George Haskell
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, the day and year first above written, and that the above named Haskell sustains a good moral character both for truth and veracity. Ephraim Whipple Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Ephraim Whipple, Esquire, before whom the within Deposition was signed and sworn to, is a Justice of the peace within and for said County - and that his signature as within appears to be in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the County Seal, this fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
Aaron Furbush
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Katherine Furbush —

Extract from the Records of the Town of Haverwick in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, taken from Book first page 207 of said Records.
"Aaron Forbush Jr. & Catherine Rice both of Haverwick were Published as the law directs" January sixteenth  seventeen hundred and seventy four."
Extract from the Records of the Church in said Haverwick, kept by Rev. David White formerly Pastor of said the Church aforesaid - taken from a page headed "An account of marriages in Haverwick"
"Aaron Forbush and Catherine Rice April" "twenty seventh seventeen hundred and seventy seventy four."
State of Massachusetts } Town Clerk's Office County of Worcester - Sept. 7th 1838.
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record from the Record of Publications in said Office now in my custody as Town Clerk of said Haverwick, and also a true copy of the Church Record of marriages likewise in my care and custody, with the exception of the date, which in the Record of the publication is expressed in fair legible figures, as follows, "Jany 16-1774," and in the Record of the marriages the date is also expressed in fair legible figures, as follows, "April 27. 1774." Attest, Joseph Stone Clerk of said Town of Haverwick for the year 1838.
I, Joseph Stone above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Haverwick in the County, Town and State aforesaid; and that the above is a true extract from the Record of Publications and also, a true extract from the Church Record of Marriages in said Haverwick, with the exceptions above named as certified by me Joseph Stone, Town Clerk of said Haverwick.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Franklin County ss. September 7, 1838. Then Joseph Stone personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said county of Franklin, and made oath according to law, to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed. And I further certify, that the said Joseph Stone sustains a good character for truth.
William Whitaker Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin County ss. On this eleventh day of September 1838. Before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county, personally appeared Washington Trimm & Sarah L. Trimm who on their oaths, declare and say, that they are well acquainted with Hatherine Furberk, who was the wife of Aaron Furberk, a former of the United States, at the time of his death; and that the said Hatherine Furberk, now is, and has ever remained a widow since that period; and that the said Aaron Furberk died on the twenty fourth day of February eighteen hundred & thirty eight.
Washington Trimm Sarah L. Trimm
Subscribed & sworn to the day and year first above written -
William Whitaker Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts- Franklin County ss. September 11. 1838, I hereby certify that, Washington Trion and Sarah L. Trion who have sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration, are disinterested witnesses, and whose character for truth are good, and that from my personal knowledge, I believe the facts by them stated to be true -
William Whitaker Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Franklin, do hereby certify that William Whitaker on the seventh day of September last was, ever since has been, and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county; and that the several foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court this third day of October A.D. 1838 E. Alvord Clerk

Aaron Furbush Mass. act June - last p.?
7 June 35
Emc
Dec 24 th Feb 1838 paid to that period
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